Literary theory books

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Unhappy Beginnings: Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts

Unhappy Beginnings: Narratives of Precarity, Failure,...

Author: Isabel González-Díaz ,  Fabián Orán-Llarena
ISBN: 9781032526591
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames...  Read More >>

Nonhuman Subjects: An Ecology of Earth-Beings

Nonhuman Subjects: An Ecology of Earth-Beings

Author: Federico Luisetti (University of St. Gallen)
ISBN: 9781009442787
Format: Paperback
$43.99

The surging wave of indigenous politics, rights of nature, and social movements acting with rocks, rivers, glaciers,...  Read More >>

E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters

E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters

Author: Nour Dakkak
ISBN: 9781032294469
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Through attending to the nonhuman, this book places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory: Vice, Virtue, and Spoilt Children

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory: Vice, Virtue, and...

Author: Julian Real
ISBN: 9781032585512
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory posits that we have today forgotten a cultural icon that helped to bring about...  Read More >>

Cognitive Narrative Thematics: A Book About What Books Are About

Cognitive Narrative Thematics: A Book About What Books...

Author: Daniel Candel
ISBN: 9781032436371
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Cognitive Narratives Thematics proposes a new way in which narrative works organise their thematic material. It...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry

Author: Huda Fakhreddine ,  Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
ISBN: 9780367562359
Format: Hardback
$452.00

Comprised of leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural,...  Read More >>

The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien

The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R....

Author: Nicholas Birns
ISBN: 9781032597683
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events...  Read More >>

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Author: Jason König (University of St Andrews, Scotland) ,  Nicolas Wiater (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781009015950
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and...  Read More >>

Mapping the Posthuman

Mapping the Posthuman

Author: Grant Hamilton ,  Carolyn Lau
ISBN: 9781032334615
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief

Author: Alison James ,  Akihiro Kubo
ISBN: 9780367635152
Format: Hardback
$452.00

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and...  Read More >>

Truth Claims Across Media

Truth Claims Across Media

Author: Beate Schirrmacher ,  Nafiseh Mousavi
ISBN: 9783031420634
Format: Hardback
$116.41

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Nonhuman Subjects: An Ecology of Earth-Beings

Nonhuman Subjects: An Ecology of Earth-Beings

Author: Federico Luisetti (University of St. Gallen)
ISBN: 9781009475969
Format: Hardback
$129.35

The surging wave of indigenous politics, rights of nature, and social movements acting with rocks, rivers, glaciers,...  Read More >>

Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Telling It Slant

Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children’s...

Author: Anita Tarr
ISBN: 9781032532332
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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The Grounds of the Novel

The Grounds of the Novel

Author: Daniel Wright
ISBN: 9781503637559
Format: Paperback
$50.99

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Der Text und seine Kultur(en)

Der Text und seine Kultur(en)

Author: Andreas Kablitz ,  Christoph Markschies
ISBN: 9783110775037
Format: Hardback
$68.55

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Tolkien’s Transformative Women: Art in Triptych

Tolkien’s Transformative Women: Art in Triptych

Author: Annie Brust
ISBN: 9781648896231
Format: Hardback
$205.92

This book seeks to uncover the hidden voices of the past to find their rightful home in the strong female voices...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe

Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe

Author: Michiko Tsushima ,  Yoshiki Tajiri
ISBN: 9783031083709
Format: Paperback
$343.17

Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between...  Read More >>

The Grounds of the Novel

The Grounds of the Novel

Author: Daniel Wright
ISBN: 9781503636835
Format: Hardback
$174.99

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Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies

Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies...

Author: Ágnes Györke ,  Tamás Juhász
ISBN: 9789462703940
Format: Paperback
$139.73

Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.  Read More >>

World Englishes, Global Classrooms: The Future of English Literary and Linguistic Studies

World Englishes, Global Classrooms: The Future of English...

Author: Kirsten Hemmy ,  Chandrika Balasubramanian
ISBN: 9789811940354
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book provides a critical overview of contemporary world issues in Language and Literary Studies. Specifically,...  Read More >>

Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction

Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction

Author: Julia Novak ,  Caitríona Ní Dhúill
ISBN: 9783031090219
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered...  Read More >>

Women's Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts

Women's Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts...

Author: April Patrick
ISBN: 9783031412561
Format: Paperback
$90.54

Women’s Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts offers an unparalleled record of women’s health in the...  Read More >>

Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism

Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology,...

Author: Brian Hisao Onishi
ISBN: 9783031480263
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate...  Read More >>

The Life-Death Instinct: Feeling Through Creative-Clinical Moments

The Life-Death Instinct: Feeling Through Creative-Clinical...

Author: Neil Maizels
ISBN: 9781032428925
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Technology and Literature

Technology and Literature

Author: Adam Hammond (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781108472586
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Whereas previous books have explored how literature depicts or discusses scientific concepts, this book argues that...  Read More >>

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